Shipping box for chicks



July 27 ,-1926. 1,394,170

, R. A. GORSUCH for the purpose. I have found that where the screen floor is of about halt-inch .mesh no trouble is experienced on account of the legs of the chicks being caught in the mesh as the chicks naturally find the Wires of the screen to grasp with. their feet.

The forms of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the in vention as claimed.

Vhat I claim is 1. A combined shipping device and brooder for chicks consisting of a box provided with a Wire screen bottom, a temporary removable partition dividing the box into a confining transporting compartment and a compartment adapted, when said partition is removed, to form with the transporting compartment a brooder, said lastnamed compartment provided with a longitudinal opening in one of its Walls, a movable feeding and drinking trough having an upwardly extending wall provided with a series of openings adapted to be placed over said longitudinal opening and cooperate therewith to permit the chicks to extend their heads only therethrough, and means for securing said trough in said position.

2. A shipping box for chicks provided with a wire screen bottom, a temporary partition dividing the box into compartments, one of said compartments having a wall provided with a longitudinal opening and a reinforcing strip for said opening forming a groove, and a feeding and drinking trough having an upwardly extended wall provided with a series of openings through which the chicks can extend their heads, said wall adapted to engage said groove and means for securing said trough when so engaged.

ROBERT A. GORSUCH. 

